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EPA Region 4 Tracks Environmental Progress through Results Fiscal Year 2003-2004 Accomplishments Report Released

Release Date: 6/29/2005
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June 29, 2005

Contact:
Laura Niles (404) 562-8353
Christian Lewis (404) 562-8395

EPA Region 4 Tracks Environmental Progress through Results Fiscal Year 2003-2004 Accomplishments Report Released

The Accomplishments Report highlighting significant environmental progress in the Southeast by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 is now available to the public on the EPA Web site.  The report showcases environmental achievements based on EPA’s Five Strategic Goals: Clean Air and Global Climate Change; Clean and Safe Water; Land Preservation and Restoration; Healthy Communities and Ecosystems; and Compliance and Environmental Stewardship. 

Some of Region 4’s accomplishments in the report include:

• reducing more than 145 million pounds of pollutants through EPA enforcement actions and supplemental environmental projects;
• saving 2.4 million gallons of diesel fuel, 4.3 million gallons of gasoline per year, reducing CO2 emissions by 24,111 tons, volatile organic compound emissions by 41.25 tons per year, and removing the equivalent of more than 13,632 automobiles from roads through EPA’s Clean School Bus Program and other voluntary mobile source programs;
• restoring more than 75,000 acres of habitat, including critical estuaries and coastal wetlands through the EPA National Estuary Programs; and
• coordinating a multi-million dollar hurricane response effort, which protected millions of citizens from hazardous materials release caused by wind and flooding from the four major hurricanes that struck the Southeast in 2004.

To view the Region 4 Accomplishments Report, please visit the Region 4 Web page at https://www.epa.gov/region4/about/accom_reports/fy2003_2004.pdf